14 Preparing For UA

"When are you going to tell him Naruto?"

Naruto grimaced when he was lectured, a lecture that came every time he visited Sorahiko "Gran Torino". The old man standing well over a foot shorter than Naruto, still made the teenager wince when he beat him over the head with a walking stick. Naruto had visited to pay him a visit, partially because nobody visited Sorahiko in his old age, and partially because Naruto got his Hero Costume and wanted Sorahiko's opinion on how it fit him. Sorahiko was like a grandfather to him, and getting his hero costume several days before he went to U.A. was a big thing for him.

Naruto grimaced and willingly took the hit.

"... When he sees me in this costume." Naruto gestured to the costume he was wearing.

Naruto was wearing a black one piece bodysuit, a bodysuit that was skin tight without any sleeves to it, letting his arms be completely free. His hands and forearms were covered by yellow gloves that fit smoothly on his hands. He had a red cap wrapped around his waist, with it being held in place with a sun-shaped buckle, and he had white sandles that were open toed at the front. Finally, he had a white cap drapped over his shoulders, a cape that had the kanji for "Protect the Heart" going down the back of it. The cape had a clip on the front of it so that it could be easily removed, and on the lower back of the black bodysuit was a portion that would open up to allow his tails to escape the suit, easily hidden by the hip cape.

Since Naruto's Quirk made him grow larger and change shape, his Hero Costume needed to be started ahead of time, and made of certain materials that could grow and change shape to fit his body better. His boots changed structure to fit his feet when they took on their fox-human hybrid form, and the gloves had nearly invisible slits to them that would allow his claws to come out. Sadly, whenever he transformed to his 2-Tailed form or higher, he would need to remove the cape, which was possible with the easy removal clip.

"When I told you who your grandmother was, I believed you would tell your uncle, since he's now ready to learn the truth as well."

"He's not ready, after his last fight with All for One, his heart and body both were punished. If he learned that who my grandmother was... then that would destroy him. I can't do that to him." Naruto smiled sadly, but it was still a smile. It hurt him to not be able to talk with Toshinori about this, and he had wanted to talk about it for so long. He reluctantly kept the information secret for years and years, and it was perhaps the biggest reason why he never wanted to accept the One for All Quirk.

Toshinori smiled to hide his own pain, his fears, and everything that he didn't want the world to see.

Few knew this about the man, the side he didn't show others.

"Fine... though, the suit looks good on you. It's styled just like my dear friend's suit, but adjusted to fit your gender and Quirk. You're inherited her smile, and will to protect others... though sadly, you also inherited her complete lack of talent." Sorahiko spoke as he appreciated Naruto's appearance in his hero costume. Since the material was made to grow, it was naturally also skin tight and form fitting, with the gloves and boots being tighter on Naruto and his friend's loose boots and gloves. Not to mention he changed the cape buckle and hip-cape buckles to fit his image more.

Naruto took the cape off his shoulders and folded it up, putting it away as it put his orange hoodie back on, zipping it up over his costume. Naruto did the same with the hip cape and just slipped pants on over the costume. Finally, Naruto took the gloves off and put them into the suitcase with the rest of the costume pieces her removed.

Naruto scowled.

"Talent this, talent that... The way I see it, with hard work and determination, I don't need talent. My uncle is talented, and look at him, he can't teach to save his life. Having no talent just means that when I become a great hero, then people will have somebody to look up to, and aspire to be like... though I really hate that heroes are..." Naruto slapped his cheeks to stop that line of thought. The days were long gone that heroes were just normal people with powers that wanted to do good. Now, heroes were government workers who did hero work for money. Many did it for other reasons, like wanting to help, but being paid to be a hero... Naruto didn't like the fact that he had to become a hero through the government, become a "villain" in the eyes of society to do hero work.

He just wanted to help people, that was all.

He wanted people to see him and think 'I'm safe now' when they were in danger, not become some public idol that could have his image easily exploited for money or fame. Though the title of hero wasn't what it used to be, and Naruto didn't respect the title itself, he would reluctantly become a government approved hero on his path to saving people.

He wanted to be a real hero, not what people considered a hero nowadays.

"So, gotten laid yet with that girlfriend or yours?"

"Ppfffffft!?" Naruto violently spat out all of the air he was breathing when that statement interrupted his line of thought. "What the hell gramps!? The ACTUAL hell are you asking me!? Of course I haven't!" Naruto denied harshly, with the brightest of red cheeks.

Sorahiko sent him a disappointed look.

"Seeing the pictures Toshinori has been sending me of you two, she's cute... do you not have any sex drive? We've got a declining birth rate and increasing death rate... not having a sex drive is-" Sorahiko was stopped when Naruto hit him on the head.

"Of course I WANT to have sex with her... but I SHOULDN'T... I don't want to risk her getting pregnant and ruining her future... She wants to be a hero, and in a few months we will have been dating for a year... we haven't been in a relationship long enough." Naruto reasoned with a burning red face. Normally he wouldn't be embarrassed by this, but the subject had been brought up so randomly, he wasn't able to put up his usual mental defenses against weird questions. "And... other reasons."

"Condoms exist you know.

"... Acid... her Quirk is Acid... and she doesn't have total control of her Quirk... If we did something, I don't think she would be able to control herself..." Naruto whispered under his breath, not liking the fact he was being pressured into admitting this. Sorahiko seemed to understand, and winced when he thought on it.

Quirks and sex.

Since Quirks came naturally to most people, it was often accidental when somebody used a Quirk during intimate moments without meaning to. It isn't uncommon for somebody to lose control of their Quirk and hurt their partner a little, or a lot depending on the Quirk. The introduction of Quirks had introduced entirely new problems into private society, the part of society that wasn't mentioned in public much.

"... Ow... Ow... You are making the right choice." Sorahiko decided not to question Naruto on this anymore.

Acid and penis were not a pleasant combination for anyone involved.

Naruto got a text.

I was ACCEPTED! - "My Boy" Kirishima

"Alright." Naruto grinned at the thought he would be attending school with his best friend. He even gave a small fist bump to celebrate Kirishima passing the exams for U.A. Naruto was about to text back, before he was sent another text, this one being in picture form.

It was Mina sending him a selfie of her wearing the U.A. school uniform, giving him a thumbs up.

Going to U.A. with his best friend AND girlfriend was going to be awesome.